ARE OUR POLITICIANS SERVING US FOR THE REASON WE VOTED FOR THEM?

At one time during the reign of Idi Amin of Uganda, he paid a visit to England at the invitation of the Queen.

During a banquet the Queen held in honour of the visiting Ugandan President, the guest was so highly delighted that he could be seen smiling from ear to ear and making merry with everyone around.

At the end of the banquet, the African President is reported to have told the Queen, “You have fed me so much that I’m fed up, when you come to Uganda, I shall retaliate!”

Unfortunately or rather fortunately, the Queen never returned a visit to Uganda for Idi Amin to retaliate! Idi Amin was overthrown and eventually died in exile after fleeing Uganda.

Those were the days Idi Amin took Ugandans for a ride.

Back home and on a more serious note, the two leading political parties in Ghana, the NDC and the NPP are trying to take Ghanaians for a ride in trying to tell us that we don’t know the reason why we voted for them to come to power.

If they care to know why we vote them in and out of power, they should be told that we vote for them to come and manage the affairs of the state so that everyone of us should have food on the table and have shelter and clothing besides peace and security and other things that make life worth living.

It is therefore unacceptable for the two leading parties to throw away the responsibilities we have assigned them through the mandate given them through our votes and instead, turn to other unimportant things such as dissecting of a simple statement such as, “There are many ways of killing a cat”.

If our politicians can stretch such a statement by the Chairman of the NDC to such length as to cause him to be invited by National Security to be questioned, then are we to take our politicians serious?

Following in the wake of this, a group calling itself the Media Analyst Group in a press statement of September 14 has also called on the IGP to arrest Jake Obetsebi Lamptey, the National Chairman of the NPP together with Kwadwo Afriyie, the General Secretary of the NPP and Frances Asiam of the same party.

The reason? Frances Asiam is alleged to have accused the Eastern Regional Minister, Mr. Samuel Ofosu Ampofo and Baba Jamal Ahmed, his Deputy of the murder of some people at Atiwa during the recent bye- election on City and Joy FM respectively.

This statement was allegedly repeated over and over again by Jake Obetsebi Lamptey the NPP National Chairman and Kwadwo Afriyie the General Secretary respectively.

Clearly the people we vote into power either don’t know why we vote them into power or simply take us for granted and must be told in plain language that we have the power to retaliate!

They need not ask how, because there are several ways to dissect an ant!